Knitting Question--Long Tail Cast On

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I am making this.

I know two whole ways to cast on–the one they teach kids (you know the one I mean) and another one that essentially involves knitting but putting the loop back on the first needle.

Anyway. This is meant to be a birthday present for a friend of mine, on nice yarn, so I want it to come out right. So I made a sample of the first part of the pattern, and found that the bottom of the dropped stitch part was just…too big, and I decided that there was a reason the pattern specified a long tail cast on, and I’d better learn it. Which is what I’m doing now. I found a lovely video at knittinghelp.com and cast on and started off on a new sample.

So, um, I’ve got this tail hanging off. Normally I would just weave it in, since it’s connected to a slipknot and I know it’s not going anywhere, but this is…strange and foreign to me. The end I have doesn’t seem like it’s going to come loose any time soon, and if I were making this for myself I’d weave it in and see what happened, but like I said, I want this to come out right.

Do I just weave it in? It won’t pull out and unravel or anything, will it?

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Yup, you just weave it in. It won’t unravel if your weaving-in is secure. :stuck_out_tongue:

Easy-peasy.

I made that pattern in pink for a breast cancer fund-raising auction a couple of years ago. Good stuff.

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Yep, just weave it in. I did a Channel Island cast-on for a shell I made, and it is a version of a long tail cast-on. It took me a bit of experimenting and noodling out the instructions, but I got it.

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A tip: if you are using bulky, multi-ply yarn you can unply it and weave in each ply separately in a different direction so you don’t end up with obvious bumps.

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Yay! Thank you, thank you!